.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 252 120
Rank change year-on-year -52 -132 +28
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 403 445 1,852
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.23% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.59% 5.60% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 369 390 1,770
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,558 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,205 7,952 16,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.48% 21.90% 21.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5,491 5,944 13,841
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 27 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -49 113 £55,000 - 48
London -46 90 £80,000 - 58
South East -53 65 £60,000 +14.29% 60
North West -28 62 £55,000 - 26
Midlands -23 60 £65,000 +23.81% 26
East Midlands -19 46 £65,000 +23.81% 15
South West -20 39 £55,000 -24.14% 16
East of England -21 28 £90,000 +80.00% 27
Yorkshire -68 26 £42,500 -15.00% 13
North East -15 25 £65,000 +44.44% 10
West Midlands -29 14 £60,000 +4.35% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (1.99%) IIS
1 8 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.74%) CMS
3 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.25%) Magento
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 236 (58.56%) Azure
2 88 (21.84%) AWS
3 61 (15.14%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (12.16%) Serverless
5 40 (9.93%) SaaS
6 34 (8.44%) GitHub
7 31 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 25 (6.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (5.21%) Azure Functions
11 17 (4.22%) Azure AKS
12 16 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (3.47%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.47%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (3.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.24%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.25%) AMQP
3 1 (0.25%) HTTP
3 1 (0.25%) Modbus
3 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (37.97%) SQL Server
2 52 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (8.68%) MongoDB
4 31 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 27 (6.70%) Power BI
6 24 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (3.97%) MySQL
8 13 (3.23%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (3.23%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.99%) Redis
10 2 (0.50%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (12.90%) Git
2 9 (2.23%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.99%) JIRA
5 3 (0.74%) NUnit
5 3 (0.74%) Vite
5 3 (0.74%) webpack
6 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.50%) MSTest
7 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
7 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 54 (13.40%) Finance
2 44 (10.92%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.22%) Law
4 15 (3.72%) Games
5 13 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (1.99%) Banking
8 8 (1.99%) Front Office
9 6 (1.49%) Retail
10 5 (1.24%) Advertising
10 5 (1.24%) Marketing
11 4 (0.99%) Automotive
12 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) Legal
12 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Local Government
13 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 283 (70.22%) Developer
2 136 (33.75%) .NET Developer
3 114 (28.29%) Senior
4 90 (22.33%) Software Developer
5 71 (17.62%) C# Developer
6 69 (17.12%) Senior Developer
7 53 (13.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 49 (12.16%) Lead
8 49 (12.16%) Software Engineer
9 42 (10.42%) C# .NET Developer
10 28 (6.95%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 26 (6.45%) .NET Software Engineer
11 26 (6.45%) Senior Software Developer
11 26 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (6.20%) Lead Developer
13 23 (5.71%) Applications Developer
13 23 (5.71%) React Developer
14 22 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (4.71%) Senior .NET Developer
15 19 (4.71%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (100.00%) .NET
2 135 (33.50%) ASP.NET
3 101 (25.06%) React
4 88 (21.84%) .NET Framework
5 63 (15.63%) RESTful
6 57 (14.14%) Entity Framework
6 57 (14.14%) HTML
7 56 (13.90%) ASP.NET Core
7 56 (13.90%) Blazor
8 55 (13.65%) AngularJS
8 55 (13.65%) CSS
9 40 (9.93%) Vue
10 31 (7.69%) Node.js
10 31 (7.69%) REST
11 30 (7.44%) ASP.NET MVC
12 29 (7.20%) ASP.NET Web API
13 14 (3.47%) Dapper ORM
13 14 (3.47%) HTML5
14 13 (3.23%) AWS CDK
14 13 (3.23%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 15 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.48%) Sports Betting
7 9 (2.23%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.99%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.49%) 3D Graphics
9 6 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.99%) Digital TV
10 4 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.99%) Social Network
10 4 (0.99%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.74%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.23%) VMS
2 6 (1.49%) Windows
3 5 (1.24%) Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (36.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 138 (34.24%) Agile
3 112 (27.79%) Software Engineering
4 111 (27.54%) CI/CD
5 97 (24.07%) DevOps
6 87 (21.59%) Microservices
7 69 (17.12%) MVC
8 60 (14.89%) Containerisation
9 59 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (12.41%) SDLC
11 43 (10.67%) Clean Code
12 40 (9.93%) OO
13 38 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (9.18%) Collaborative Culture
15 33 (8.19%) Mentoring
16 32 (7.94%) Analytics
17 31 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
18 30 (7.44%) AI
18 30 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
19 29 (7.20%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 352 (87.34%) C#
2 170 (42.18%) SQL
3 117 (29.03%) JavaScript
4 55 (13.65%) TypeScript
5 27 (6.70%) PowerShell
6 22 (5.46%) Python
7 12 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (2.48%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.49%) Bash
10 5 (1.24%) Java
11 4 (0.99%) Bicep
11 4 (0.99%) Rust
12 3 (0.74%) Erlang
12 3 (0.74%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.50%) C++
13 2 (0.50%) PHP
14 1 (0.25%) F#
Qualifications
1 31 (7.69%) Degree
2 14 (3.47%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.73%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.73%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.23%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.24%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.47%) QA
2 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.50%) GDPR
2 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.50%) ITGC
2 2 (0.50%) SLA
2 2 (0.50%) WCAG
3 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (20.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.94%) Terraform
3 2 (0.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 121 (30.02%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.74%) Google
3 6 (1.49%) Adobe
4 5 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (1.24%) Facebook
5 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.50%) Databricks
5 2 (0.50%) Foundry
5 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.50%) YouTube
6 1 (0.25%) Apple
6 1 (0.25%) IBM
6 1 (0.25%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle
6 1 (0.25%) Sony
6 1 (0.25%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.25%) Yahoo!